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Trial reportNature medicine2025

Telemedicine-supported lifestyle intervention for glycemic control in patients with CHD and T2DM: multicenter, randomized controlled trial.

Stephan Mueller, Sophia M T Dinges, Felix Gass, Isabel Fegers-Wustrow, Julian Treitschke, Pia von Korn, Alessandra Boscheri, Janosch Krotz, Felix Freigang, Clara Dubois and 15 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled TrialMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Trial report in Nature medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03835923 (Lifestyle Intervention in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03835923 nacompletednot on this map

Lifestyle Intervention in Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease and Diabetes

TypeinterventionalSponsorTechniker KrankenkasseRan2019 to 2021Enrolled502ConditionsIschemic Heart Disease Chronic, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Armslifestyle intervention, usual care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. ANMCO position paper E-health integration in cardiology clinical care framework.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Stephan MuellerTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4890-3981
Sophia M T DingesTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2897-4291
Felix GassTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-5390
Isabel Fegers-WustrowTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Julian TreitschkeTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Pia von KornTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
Alessandra BoscheriTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-8344-2476
Janosch KrotzInstitute for Applied Healthcare Research GmbH (inav), Berlin, Germany.
Felix FreigangInstitute for Applied Healthcare Research GmbH (inav), Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-8913
Clara DuboisInstitute for Applied Healthcare Research GmbH (inav), Berlin, Germany.
Ephraim B WinzerDepartment for Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Heart Centre Dresden, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany.
Axel LinkeDepartment for Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Technische Universität Dresden, Heart Centre Dresden, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany.
Frank EdelmannDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany.
Anna FeuersteinDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany.
Oliver WolframDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Kerstin SchäferDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Marlo VerketDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3361-3722
Bernd WolfarthDepartment of Sports Medicine, Humboldt University and Charité University School of Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
Marcus DörrDepartment of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Rolf WachterDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2231-2200
Björn HackenbergIDS Diagnostic Systems GmbH, Oberau, Germany.
Sarah RustTechniker Krankenkasse, Hamburg, Germany.
Thomas NeblingTechniker Krankenkasse, Hamburg, Germany.
Volker AmelungInstitute for Applied Healthcare Research GmbH (inav), Berlin, Germany.
Martin HalleTechnical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Department for Preventive Sports Medicine and Sports Cardiology, TUM University Hospital, Munich, Germany. martin.halle@mri.tum.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-530X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a substantially increased risk for major cardiovascular events and mortality. Increasing physical activity and improving a healthy diet may effectively reduce cardiovascular risk factors; however, the effects are often transient. In a multicenter, 1:1 randomized controlled trial including 502 patients with combined CHD and T2DM (68 ± 8 years; 84% men), we assessed the effects of a home-based telemedicine-supported lifestyle intervention (exercise training, nutritional recommendations and health literacy training) with regular individualized feedback versus usual care. The study met its primary endpoint of reduced glycated hemoglobin after 6 months in favor of the lifestyle intervention group (mean between-group difference in the complete-case analysis (n = 197 and n = 193), -0.13% (95% confidence interval, -0.25 to -0.01), P = 0.04). When individualized feedback and health literacy training were discontinued after 6 months (while other telemedicine tools were maintained), no statistically significant between-group differences were observed at 12 months. At 12 months, 31 patients (6.2%) had a major adverse cardiovascular event (lifestyle intervention, n = 20 (8.0%); usual care, n = 11 (4.4%); P = 0.15), with the main reason being hospitalization for angina or revascularization (lifestyle intervention, n = 15; usual care, n = 8). There were five deaths (lifestyle intervention, n = 2; usual care, n = 3), none of which were categorized as related to the intervention. However, three events that resulted in hospitalization were categorized as potentially related to the intervention (decompensation of heart failure, vertebral disc prolapse and inguinal hernia). In conclusion, a home-based lifestyle intervention with telemedicine support showed modest effects in patients with CHD and T2DM. ClinicalTrials.gov registration: NCT03835923 .

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Coronary DiseaseDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Glycemic ControlLife StyleAgedBlood GlucoseExerciseFemaleGlycated HemoglobinHumansMaleMiddle AgedTelemedicineBlood GlucoseGlycated Hemoglobin

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PMID39920395
PMCPMC12003154

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